Animals That Start With P: List, Facts & Free Coloring Pages

Penguins cannot fly, but they are amazing swimmers. They use their flippers like wings to zoom through the water.

Giant pandas spend most of their day eating bamboo. They live in misty mountain forests in China.

Pigs are very smart and can learn their own names. They roll in mud to cool off because they cannot sweat much.

Many parrots can copy sounds, and some can even say words. Their feet have two toes pointing forward and two pointing back.

Polar bears have black skin under their thick white fur. They are strong swimmers and hunt seals from the sea ice.

Only the male is called a peacock, and the female is called a peahen. He spreads his long, shiny tail feathers into a giant fan.

Porcupines are covered in thousands of sharp quills. They cannot shoot their quills, but the quills come out easily if touched.

Atlantic puffins have bright orange beaks in the summer. They can carry lots of small fish in their beaks at once.

The platypus has a bill like a duck and lays eggs, even though it is a mammal. It lives in rivers and streams in eastern Australia.

Pufferfish gulp water to blow up like a spiky ball when they feel scared. This makes them too big and prickly for most fish to eat.

Pythons are big snakes that squeeze their food instead of using venom. Mother pythons coil around their eggs to keep them safe.

A praying mantis holds its front legs together like it is praying. It can turn its head to look over its shoulder.